#Acts 1:8

[aressida]

Today's verses: "Discover and align with the Will Of God." - 25.6.24.

Psalm 25:4-5. Psalm 25:8-9. Ephesians 5:15-20. 1 Corinthians 12:11. Acts 1:8. Psalm 119:105. Start by praying: (learning to correct the way of the prayers) "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

God is with us always.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Christ's Witnesses

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes to you. Then you will be my witnesses to testify about me in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. — Acts 1:8 | Names of God Bible (NOG) The Names of God Bible (without notes) © 2011 by Baker Publishing Group. Cross References: Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:48; John 15:27; Acts 1:22; Acts 2:1; Acts 2:4

[chadbrodrick]

Life presents unforeseen challenges like loss, rejection, and health issues that test our resilience. During such times, the Holy Spirit provides comfort and strength, enabling us to endure rather than merely survive. This empowerment isn't about the absence of struggle but about enduring through it with grace. Our struggles serve as opportunities for spiritual growth and can inspire and encourage others. Ultimately, the Spirit’s strength helps us to stand firm, reminding us that we are not alone in our trials.

[bojackson54]

The Witnesses Who Matter: What's YOUR Story?

You see it in movies and on TV. There’s a nervous person in the witness-box. They swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They are usually just people who happened to see or experience something pertaining to a trial in a court of law. As a result, they are called upon to testify before a judge, perhaps a jury, and the plaintiffs or defendants. Witnesses tell the truth as it…

[martyschoenleber]

Surprises Abound After Fifty Years

Forty-plus years ago, I became a husband. My bride continues to surprise me with new mercies, so too does my own sinfulness and ability to get irritated over nothing, literally nothing, even after so many years of grace. We are different and sometimes the sandpaper of relationship is even now, resistant . Every day that she puts up with me is another surprise that I gratefully receive.…

[coptorthodox]

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8

[tom4jc]

May 18, 2024 Verse Of The Day

[phoenixflames12]

[melvingaines]

The Power of Faith

A message for Akron Alliance Fellowship Church, Akron OH, September 17, 2023. My lovely bride and I were at the Central District and Prayer Conference this past week at North-Mar Church in Warren, Ohio.  It gave us the opportunity to spend time with Pastor Gus and also meeting a number of pastors and their spouses that I had not seen for a quite a while.  It was great to see so many pastors from…

[trueconservativepundit]

Called to be a Faithful Witness

By Adrian Rogers “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”  Acts 1:8 When God says, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16), by implication God is saying you shall bear faithful witness. Jesus Christ is called “the faithful witness”…

[claraoswalds]

This is a brand new science for me, and I love it. The language of luck. 'Cause what is a coincidence but a form of accident? Two things bumping together unexpectedly. Like you and me.

[theblackhandofbane]

Zevlor is such a dilf i’m sorry

[kedreeva]

#we spoke of this a LOT at work after that one tech was murdered and hidden in a wall

hi!👋 hello! kedreeva! i’m going to need to ask you to explain this!!!!

So back in 2009, a lab student named Annie Le was murdered at Yale university. Cameras saw her going on into a building, but not out again and it was like, the eve of her wedding (or close to? I don't remember) so clearly she had places to be and people waiting for her so they immediately started looking and the next day (or so? Anyway on the day of her wedding) they found her body in a recess in a wall, down in the areas where the research animals were kept. It turns out, a tech had killed her, but since there were cameras like EVERYWHERE, he just, I guess, left her there. Well, hid the body where it was. I don't remember how they caught him, but they did. It was a horrifying story. It still is.

And it was a huge news story among the folks at my workplace because, at the time, I was working at a different university, as an animal husbandry technician. As you can imagine this was a kind of intense time to be in that situation. They started offering, like, I'm not gonna say counseling but it was "if you need to talk we would prefer you talk to us about something wrong rather than kill anyone about it" and as techs (even if we were not even the same kind of tech, the killer was a lab tech and we were husbandry techs but I think a lot of people assumed it had been a husbandry tech since she was in an animal area), we were kind of getting the side eye from lab people for weeks afterwards. Like they thought we were gonna go "wow that's a fantastic idea, you're next!" or something, idk. And I mean like, people would freeze when you were alone in a hallway, or turn and walk the other way, or duck into the nearest room and watch you walk past, and they were all being super nice/civil to us when they did have to interact. It was very atypical behavior for lab people. Like not all of them, some of them had always been nice and weren't worried, but some of the people who had been unbelievable dicks previously were walking on eggshells. And the people who had friends in other universities reported this was happening at their jobs, too.

And instead of talking to The Man (because all the higher ups were garbage at the time), we just. talked among ourselves. It was a lot of "I may say I feel like strangling lab people sometimes when they do things that drive me up a wall but I don't MEAN it you know that right" and it also led to group discussions of what would be a theoretical *better* solution to hiding a body than what happened, with clear disdain for doing things like hiding bodies in walls, which is a terrible idea and one we would never do (looking at the people who think we might have decided this was a great idea actually).

Which consequently led to a lot of supervisors and/or managers that happened to overhear us bringing us donuts or arranging pizza for lunch in like, some kind of bid to help us feel appreciated, I guess, so that we wouldn't murder anyone, even though none of us were going to do that anyway. But also none of us were in a position to turn down free donuts or pizza or whatever.

And then after a few weeks, maybe a month or so, people just kind of forgot and moved on and things went back to normal like fifty people hadn't spent every lunch hour for weeks talking quietly among themselves about how human bodies would definitely fit into a carcass disposal barrel or that you'd have to crush hip bones and/or skulls before incineration. Hypothetically.

Like I said, it was a VERY weird time to be at my job, and every time I remember it happening feels like a fever dream. I can't even imagine what it was like at Yale.

[chadbrodrick]

Have you ever hit the end of your strength, the end of your patience, your courage, or your energy, and wondered how you could keep going? Here’s the good news: the Christian life was never meant to be lived on human strength alone.

[bojackson54]

Witnesses Who Matter: What's YOUR Story?

You see it in movies and on TV. There’s a nervous person in the witness-box. They swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They are usually just people who happened to see or experience something pertaining to a trial in a court of law. As a result, they are called upon to testify before a judge, perhaps a jury, and the plaintiffs or defendants. Witnesses tell the truth as it…

[waywardwhispersblaze]

a bit of follow up to this post - re - does Vi know or suspect about Jinx's fate after S2

I've seen so many posts here or on reddit claiming that Caitlyn suspects something but chooses not to tell Vi "until she knows for sure", or because Vi "would break if she knew".

...which sort of implies that Vi can't be trusted when it comes to Jinx and that Caitlyn is the reasonable and level-headed one in the matter.

And I just think it's funny because the show consistently shows us the opposite - Caitlyn is the one who has been (understandably!) blinded by her rage toward Jinx and is the one who ultimately defers to Vi's judgment to make the right call ("Vi thinks Jinx deserves a second chance? Alright, I'm gonna let her go free - nevermind that everyone in Piltover including my own father would hate me for my decision if they knew)"

And Vi's judgment is ultimately proven right - "she can't give up on Jinx" not in the sense that she's doomed to chase after her forever, but in the sense that she was right to see the good in her (how do we know that? Jinx comes back to save the day!). And none of that changes in the last scene.